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TelTel Offers New Media Channels Via SIP-based Internet TelephonySANTA CLARA, California – May 26, 2005 – TelTel, a provider of SIP-based global Internet telephony service with presence-enabled features, announced today the introduction of innovative media channel services. This new offering of music and audio programming takes TelTel’s managed peer-to-peer Internet Telephony network to the next level. Now, its more than 1 million user community can take advantage of TelTel’s service for more than voice calling. These new media channels showcase the many capabilities of TelTel’s standards-based SIP technology. They add a new experience to the already popular voice calling to and from anywhere on the planet to fellow TelTel users. TelTel currently provides 13 channels of audio entertainment in two languages, and plans to expand the range of offerings in the near future. A TelTel user only needs to click on “My Channel” on the softphone and can immediately enjoy a wide variety of content. "We are very excited to offer these media channels to our user community as an added feature to our instant voice services,” said Sherman Tuan, CEO of TelTel. “The media channels give TelTel users more services to choose from and demonstrate our capabilities to provide a platform for a variety of SIP compliant services to the TelTel user community.” A media content provider can be a TelTel partner through its partner program. Similarly, nearly any telecom service provider using SIP, including the SIP termination and SIP origination service providers, also can become TelTel’s partner through the same partner program. TelTel’s user base now has more than one million users, making it the world's largest SIP-based Internet Telephony user community. TelTel’s media service is in beta. TelTel’s service is available for download at www.teltel.com. About TelTel: TelTel is a global Internet telephony service based on standards-based SIP technology. The company provides “Instant Voice”, which combines Telephony + Presence, which includes Instant Messaging features. TelTel is the world’s largest SIP-based Internet Telephony user community. For more information or to try TelTel, please see www.teltel.com. |